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Comment by bugfix

5 hours ago

If you let it, Claude Code will write a comment for almost every single line of code.

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ziml77  1 hour ago

Even if you try to get them to not, they will still overcomment the code. Or at least overcomment it from the perspective of a human. From the perspective of the LLM, I suspect the comments are necessary for it to be able to get the code output correct.

mikepurvis  5 hours ago

    # Assign value of x to y
    y = x

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